It’s long been my dream to make my own keyboard. Almost every day it seems that there’s someone new on Twitter or Reddit that’s produced a gorgeous custom keyboard, and I can only marvel at the self-made layouts, beautiful engineering…
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Max Keyboard Falcon-8: build your own 8% keyboard for macros, media control & more
Posted in Articles, Reviews Tagged with: build log, custom keyboard, desoldering, Falcon 8, Max Keyboard, soldering, switch tester
Guest blog: A translator’s conversion to a mechanical keyboard
As a translator, I spend many hours a day at my computer, yet for years I didn’t give my keyboard a second thought. I switched happily between a basic external keyboard – the sort that comes bundled with a desktop…
Posted in Articles, Reviews Tagged with: Filco, Majestouch-2, mechanical keyboards, translation, translator
Our favourite typing games
With a good keyboard beneath your fingers, typing is a joyful experience. Particularly when you pick up a new keyboard — or upgrade an old one — you just want to type for hours. You could write that novel you’ve always had in the…
What is NKRO? Our guide to rollover, anti-ghosting and choosing the right keyboard
What is n-key rollover? N-key rollover is commonly cited as an advantage of choosing a mechanical keyboard over a rubber dome alternative, but the concept often isn’t well explained. In this article, we’ll explain what we mean by rollover, how…
Posted in Articles, Guides Tagged with: anti-ghosting, blocking, explainer, ghosting, mechanical, membrane, NKRO, rollover, rubber dome
Bruce’s Blog — March 2016
Hello Everyone. The last few months have flown by, it seems like yesterday I was writing about how we’re working on the website design and looking forward to Christmas. And here we are now, the website is up and running…
Win a Filco MiniLa from LowkoTV & KeyboardCo!
We’re teaming up with popular YouTuber LowkoTV to give away a Filco MiniLa 60% size mechanical keyboard. Enter using the Rafflecopter box below! a Rafflecopter giveaway You can get more entries for following Lowko and KeyboardCo on Twitter, visiting our…
Contour RollerMouse Red review
Today we’re looking at Contour’s RollerMouse Red, an ergonomic alternative to a mouse. The RollerMouse is an interesting peripheral, with a design that isn’t like most other mouse replacements. It sits below your keyboard, with a textured bar that sits along…
Filco Convertible 2: hands-on review
Update July 2017: Good news, everyone! Full-size Convertible 2 keyboards with MX Brown switches will be available this summer in UK, German or Swedish layouts (ISO). MX Blue switches will also be available, for UK layouts only. Click here for the full…
Matias Ergo Pro review: my new favourite ergonomic keyboard
Ergonomic keyboards have been a kind of holy grail in the mechanical keyboard industry for a long time; many companies have produced one, but none has become a standout success. Naturally, when we heard that Matias were working on an…
Mechanical keyboard glossary
Here is a glossary of mechanical keyboard terms. Let us know if we missed a term or we didn’t explain something as well as we could have done! 60%: A style of keyboard which is about 60% the size of…
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